It’s also a ripoff of The Last Starfighter, which I think is even mentioned at the beginning of Armada, but it’s still a ripoff. Ender’s Game kind of came first (the story came out, then The Last Starfighter, then the full Ender’s Game novel). Armada manages to rip both off, though, and isn’t a quarter as good as either.

I’d never heard of him until they were filming a scene from that movie in the neighborhood I lived in at the time. I looked it up and quickly decided I’d never watch the movie or read the book. It all sounded so awful.